[shr-u] first impressions

[Sebastian Krzyszkowiak]

On 9/10/09, Thomas Zimmermann <zimmermann at vdm-design.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 10 September 2009 11:00:59 schrieb arne anka:
>> after having trashed my debian/fso for the moment, i decided to try out
>> shr for a while until i get fso working again.
>> while i try to read almost all mails on community, i can't claim to have
>> followed the shr development that close.
>> i got some first impressions i'd like to share -- if they are addressed
>> already, simply ignore them, if i miss something point it out.
>>
>> skin is illume-shr since i figured it would fit the freerunner's screen
>> best.
>> version is the image from august 8th with the matching kernel (what are
>> the "modules" for?) without any updates so far, thus probably some of my
>> complaints are addressed already.
>>
>> - imo the default font is far to big -- i set it to "small" but got the
>> distinct impression that illume crashes really often now, luckely enough
>> mostly it recovers, i had to reboot only once or twice because it locked
>> hard (fso still worked, since the screen blanked and the fr suspended).
>> - with the default font the "x crashed" screen and some settings screens
>> are unreadable since a lot of text is invisible
>> - the font setting is a) to big for the screen and b) confusing. from the
>> plethora of options i am unable to decide, which is the one i want (having
>> very small columns with only the first letter visible does not help
>> either) -- switching to landscape helped only marginally and left me with
>> a corrupted screen after switching back to porttrait (coordinates where
>> still landscape and the lower part of the screen, >480 were ... gaudy)
>> - basic preview text"
>> - scrolling in the settings app is cumbersome -- a) buttons are too close
>> to the border, i live always in fear to accidently hit one without knowing
>> what it will do, b) the "ok" button at bottom is to wide, more than once
>> while scrolling i hit that "ok" button and was sent back to the main menu
>> - i tried to minimize the font of the clock in the top shelf -- it is
>> somewhat affected by the size setting of top shelf gadgets, but far from
>> sufficient. while that signal level gadget and the battery gadget are
>> minimized into illegibility, the clock still is big (about 4/5 of the
>> shelf height, while the other gadgets are less than 1/2), overlays
>> signal/battery and is cut off at the top slightly (since it is not
>> vertically centered but aligns to the top). only setting the actual
>> date/time is possible, font used or font size are not.
>> - bottom shelf seems not to be affected by changing the shel size, it
>> seems to retain the very same height as before, but the font displaying
>> "loading" gets smaller
>>
>> i think, i'll attempt an update tonight and see, what changes.
>
> All thing's, expect for shr-settings, are e releated so they won't change
> (soon).
> And shr-settings layout hasn't changed since 8.8. too, so an update won't
> change anything you mentioned.
>
> Thomas

I think he mean Illume wrench settings, not SHR Settings.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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